The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-03-23

isfy the landlord.
1t was Irish history over again: moral
wrongs pressing upon the suffering peo-
pie without legal remedy: then Illegal
acts to secure something like moral
rights; coercion, driving just discomfort
under the surface and exciting fierce
discomfort (cheers)- The wisest policy
was remedial legislation which would
/ destroy the roots of discomfort. In 1881.
when the Coercion bill was passed the
| number of evictions rose enormously.
| The number of outrages increased from
/ 40 i'm February, 1881, to 40 in january
| 1892, and To 53i in March. He doubted
whether the excessive penal laws of the
eighteenth century did more injury to
| Ireland than did the agrarian laws
I of the present century. To ask
I urgency for placing the law upon the
I side of the landlords was to shut the door
upon the tenants. His deliberate con-
viction was that there had never been a
more wanton. gratuiticus and unjustifia-
bic resort to AN ever failing. ever poison
Gus remedy OF cercion.
MR. BtLFoUR FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
Mr. Balfour accused Mr. Morley Of
be.stowing adverse criticism and invec-
tives upon n measure that was as yet IN
known. Mr.. Gladstone in 1881 told the
/ House To consider not only the amount
of crime, but its character and what it
was aimed ar. The bill liasl heen forced
upon tine government because the
present current of crime was aimed at
the subversion of the laws-the basis OF
order. Ii was beside the question to tell
the House that there We're some bad
landlords and oppressed tenants. This
must ne expected while human nature
remains what il IL.
Referring to the hand legislation of the
late Government. Mr.. Balfour character
izes il a. failure. The conversion of "a
section of the Liberals To Home Rule
was confess'on that the condemn II I.ni
bill about to be introduced would make
smoother and give equitable relief To
tenants. tie would not pretend that the
measure would solve the land question
/ The only solution of that was a great
measure dealing with land purchase
which the Government was ready to in
troduce when the opposition was pre-
pared to- receive it. (Cheersl. What
hope was there tor any scheme Of pur-
chase if, ut the bi;llinS of League. n
solemn compact entered into under the
legislation of 1881 was to BE- deliberately
broken: If Parliament suffered that
compact To be set at Haught. more inn
portant and serious compact of settle
ment of the land difficulty might he
broken also. Every man who wished tn
stop short OF separation would he per
fectiy mad if he followed the policy of
| Morley. Let the Government have the
power To vindieate the existing laws and
then respect for future legislation would
be insured. tCheers)-
THE GOVERNMENTS PoIICY.
Though neither Smith nor Balfour
gave any explicit statement of the Gov
ernment's Irish measures to-day, an
analysis of their speeches discloses the
fact that a definite policy has been de
cided upon and fully elaborated, covor-
ing all legislation for Ireland that the
Government will ever consent to pro-
pose. The programme will open with
the Coercion Bill. conjOined with the
Tenants Relief Bill To be introduced in
the House of Lords next week. The re-
lief proposals will consist of giving ten
ants the power TO stay evictions by de
claring their inability to pay fuil rent,
ami wiping ont the claim by surrenders
to the bankruptcy court. The grand
measure for land purchase will follow.
This measure is based ON Chamberlain's
land bank scheme.
Ii the government should be defeated
at any part in the development of their
policy they will not resign, but will ap-
peal To the country. The confident tome
of the Ninisterialists confirms the gener-
ally accepted report that Chamberlain
and Harrington assisted in building the
scheme and approve of the final struc-
ture. The Parneliites are eager to fight
IL at every stage. but they find the.
GladstOnians reluctant to support
them. Instead of contesting the ur-
gency motion To the utmost extremity
the Glasistoniau whips, without con-
sulting the Parnellites tonight arranged
with the government whips to divide ON
the Morely amendment Thursday, thus
opening the read To the passage of the
Coercion Bill before the Eastern recess
The Parnellites are disposed to disregard
the whips and are arranging To continue.
the struggle Independently